China Watch: Mummies Nixed, Who’s the Enemy?

A list of what the Wall Street Journal’s reporters in China are reading and watching online, periodically updated throughout the day. (NOTE: WSJ has not verified items in the ‘News’ section and does not vouch for their accuracy.) Last updated: 7:01 pm Beijing time.

News items:

Chinese authorities order online video game operators to allow parents to regulate the amount of time their children's game sessions. (AFP)

China has objected to the exhibition of artifacts from Xinjiang, including a 4,000 year-old mummy with Caucasian features, at the University of Pennsylvania. (AP)

China is on track to become the world's top consumer of gold, due in part to inflation fears and an increase in gold Lunar New Year gifts. (FT)

Digging deeper:

Justin Li of the Institute of Chinese Economics says the economic relationship between resource-hungry China and resource-rich Mongolia isn't as neat as it might seem. Exhibit: Mongolia's decision to build a 5,683-kilometre railway linking its mines and sea ports…in Russia.

Prognostication department:

An editorial in the Global Times looks at the challenges facing China in the Year of the Rabbit. Among them: drought, inflation, "overreaching and an inferiority complex."

Opinionating outside the box:

In a niftily instructive cut-and-paste job, Forbes executive editor Neil Weinberg considers whether China is the enemy by resurrecting a 1991 commentary by James Fallows on the rise of another Asian giant.

Just because:

What one American politician just can't seem to keep himself out of the China picture? China Beat has the answer.